Evernote for Family

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We have Evernote for business. How about an addition for Family? I would dearly like to share notes etc with my family. And would happy pay for a family plan where we could share the upload limits between us. But it needs to be cheaper than the business plan... That too much for a family to pay out.

Maybe have family plan starting at 4 members but being able to add extended family members or increasing monthly bandwidth for uploads..

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So the Plus version is 34.99 per year, Premium is 69.99, maybe Family could be 99.99 for up to 5 users. Business is 12 per user per month so for 5 people that would be 720 per year. But Family version wouldn't need all the Business features like separate personal/business tabs and Single Sign-On. Or you could even have two Family versions - Family Plus and Family Premium, each wilth the same features as Plus and Premium but with a 5-user allowance.

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We have Evernote for business. How about an addition for Family? I would dearly like to share notes etc with my family. And would happy pay for a family plan where we could share the upload limits between us. But it needs to be cheaper than the business plan... That too much for a family to pay out.

Maybe have family plan starting at 4 members but being able to add extended family members or increasing monthly bandwidth for uploads..

Great idea.

Failing this, you might have your family members create free accounts, and make use of shared notebooks.

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We have Evernote for business. How about an addition for Family? I would dearly like to share notes etc with my family. And would happy pay for a family plan where we could share the upload limits between us. But it needs to be cheaper than the business plan... That too much for a family to pay out.

Maybe have family plan starting at 4 members but being able to add extended family members or increasing monthly bandwidth for uploads..

Your idea is fantastic, I would be happy to sign a Family subscription. By now everyone has a floor dedicated to the family (1Password, Netflix, Apple, etc.) why not do it to Evernote?

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bumping this up. As currently starting up family, I see lack of family plan a huge issue for me from Evernote side. Considering even using OneNote as office already includes 5 users. (even though OneNote blaaah)

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As mentioned above, use of separate accounts with notebook sharing should work fine. Any of the accounts may be a paid account, so you can control costs on your own. I don't see a huge need for Evernote to provide a separate family plan. It's extra cost to Evernote to create and administer new plan types, and for what gain?

But just to explore it further, a question: what would the proposed family plan have that the approach that uses separate accounts w/shared notebooks lacks? The only downside I can think of is the fact that you cannot create tags in someone else's account. And maybe the device limit on free accounts.

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as usually some workaround work. It is question of how easy/expensive it is. I do not know if you have a family or face the same issue but imagine this for family of 4:

1. costs: evernote for 4 people can cost from 60eur-240eur depending how much of the premium/plus features you want to use. I assume the basic is not enough and in that case the costs goes to en average of 150eur for household. (as comparison MS office = 70eur for individual and 100eur family of 5). I hope you see the disrepency. (and that is for suite of programs)

2. There could be a section "Family" as similar to "notebooks or shared now" that can be managed in the family. Issue now with sharing is that shared has to be managed, so if I create a new notebook i have to remember to share it. If other in the family create a notebook, again they have to remember to share it. Also would be nice if someone from the family could keep the organization of the "family notebook" for other that do not want to spend much time organizing their references.

3. shared bandwidth. No need for 4x1gb-10gb per month uploads

I bet there are more reasons to think about nicely done Family features and pricing.

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as usually some workaround work. It is question of how easy/expensive it is. I do not know if you have a family or face the same issue but imagine this for family of 4:

My scenario isn't a family, but I use two accounts, one for personal use, and one for my work, with shared notebooks between the two accounts; my personal account is Premium, the work account is Basic. This works well for me.

1 hour ago, StepanD said:

1. costs: evernote for 4 people can cost from 60eur-240eur depending how much of the premium/plus features you want to use. I assume the basic is not enough and in that case the costs goes to en average of 150eur for household. (as comparison MS office = 70eur for individual and 100eur family of 5). I hope you see the disrepency. (and that is for suite of programs)

I don't care about Microsoft products -- it's a false comparison: they don't do the same thing (the new word for that these days is "whataboutism"). If MS's suite did what you wanted, then we wouldn't be having this discussion; you'd just be using them. With shared accounts, you control the costs for your family. Your assumption is that everyone needs a paid account, but that's not a necessity. Of course, if you're paying out extra bucks for all of Junior's extra devices, then a Plus account shouldn't be much of an additional added cost.

1 hour ago, StepanD said:

2. There could be a section "Family" as similar to "notebooks or shared now" that can be managed in the family. Issue now with sharing is that shared has to be managed, so if I create a new notebook i have to remember to share it. If other in the family create a notebook, again they have to remember to share it. Also would be nice if someone from the family could keep the organization of the "family notebook" for other that do not want to spend much time organizing their references.

I'd call this a "nice-to-have", at best. In my usage, notebook creation is a very rare occurrence, so managing sharing is not a huge deal to me. Too many notebooks in Evernote, in my philosophy, means "you're doing it wrong" (I almost never create a new notebook unless one is absolutely required; I have ~25 across two accounts, and I'd have fewer if I weren't so lazy about combining notebooks that really should be together.). I'd guess that the actual need for sharing would be pretty rare: how many notebooks do you really need for your family? Granted, I'd be swapping tag management for notebook management, which is a bit of a different issue. In any case, why wouldn't a single "Family" notebook suffice? Much easier to manage, and shared reminders would fit in there nicely. Ok, maybe you want a shared notebook with your spouse, private from the kids; but that's a separate sharing arrangement than the one you use for everyone. And maybe a notebook shared between the parents and each child separately (so little Timmy has a separate one from little Sally). You still need to manage sharing...

1 hour ago, StepanD said:

3. shared bandwidth. No need for 4x1gb-10gb per month uploads

I don't see any problem here. You're going to be uploading as much with any family account as with any shared account scenario. Uploads are uploads (new content + updates to edited notes), not storage. Bandwidth is the same either way: you use zero extra bandwidth due to sharing notebooks.

*shrug* Not really seeing it, nor am I seeing much of a compelling reason for Evernote to offer such a product ;it costs time and money for them to develop new UI, training, support for such things. But good luck.

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I don't agree with the need for this. My family all have Evernote where I am the only (self-proclaimed) power user. I am a premium user while my family are all basic users. I share notebooks and notes with them as appropriate. The way I have my notebooks setup, I share family-related notebooks with my wife and specific notes with others.

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It is worth pointing out that this is the opposite of what e.g. Dropbox does, where everyone needs to have enough space to store the shared stuff.

It's also worth pointing out that storage space is less often the issue with Evernote than are its monthly upload quota limits. User storage limits in Evernote in Evernote are governed by the note limit (100,000 per user) and the note size limit (25MB Basic, 50MB Plus, 200MB Premium), so even a Basic level user has a pretty high upper limit (2.5 terabytes by my calculation, before my morning coffee, mind). Once you get content into Evernote, everyone can use it. But if you have someone in your group who needs to upload a lot of stuff to Evernote in a short amount of time, then you may hit the upload quota limits (60MB Basic, 1GB Plus, 10GB Premium). Even so, you can upgrade them to Plus or Premium temporarily and then drop back them down later on.

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There's no indication Evernote is interested in "Family" pricing.
The Basic account continues to be free.
- I have a premium account; basic accounts for the rest of the family.
- All primary notebooks are owned by the premium account and shared to the others.